Sun Metals
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Economy
China bans export of Korean goods containing its rare earth metals to US
The Chinese government has warned South Korean companies of retributions for exporting any product containing its critical metals to US military con...
Apr 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Executive reshuffles
Naver to name new CFO as incumbent financial manager's term nears end
South Korea’s tech giant Naver Corp. is expected to soon announce a new chief financial officer as its current CFO Kim Nam-sun, credited for t...
Mar 12, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Commodities
FOMO-driven gold rush lifts kimchi premium on gold to highest level
With South Korean retail investors joining the global gold rush in ‘fear of missing out’, or FOMO, the country’s gold price has ...
Feb 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE wins $2.6 bn order for 12 container ships
South Korea’s largest shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) said on Thursday it got 3.716 trillion won ...
Jan 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK Ecoplant, BMW team up for battery recycling
SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company under SK Group, partnered with German luxury carmaker BMW to...
Jan 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Executive reshuffles
Chung Ki-sun moves closer to managing HD Hyundai with his promotion
HD Hyundai Co., the holding company of South Korea’s No. 1 shipbuilding conglomerate, on Thursday shuffled its top management. In it, Vice Cha...
Nov 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Goldman Sachs to sell stake in Korea’s top food ingredient wholesaler
Goldman Sachs is set to sell its stake in South Korea’s leading food ingredient wholesaler in an estimated 120 billion won ($89.4 million) dea...
Sep 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia releases 2025 Sorento
South Korea’s second-largest automaker Kia Corp. said on Monday that it released The 2025 Sorento, an updated version of its best-selling mid-...
Sep 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Samhwa Paint launches anti-rust product Knok-Stop
South Korea's Samhwa Paint Industrial said on Wednesday that it has introduced a new water-based primer, Knok-Stop, designed to convert rust on meta...
Aug 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Korea Zinc speeds up separation from Young Poong in management feud
South Korea’s largest zinc smelter Korea Zinc Co. is accelerating its efforts to terminate its decades-long business relations with parent You...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
Korea Zinc to invest $146 mn in green business R&D hub
Korea Zinc Inc., South Korea’s and the world’s No. 1 lead and zinc smelter, will build its second research and development center, which...
May 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Aekyung AGE20's to enter US cosmetics market
South Korea's Aekyung Industrial Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Silicon2, a global K-beauty distri...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Waste management
Korea Zinc buys US Kataman for $55 mn for recycling business
Korea Zinc Inc., the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter, acquired Kataman Metals LLC, a US-based scrap metal trading company, at $55 millio...
Apr 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
Doosan Enerbility expands metal 3D printing into shipbuilding
South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility Co. said on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pelagus 3D, a Singapore-based p...
Feb 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix to use 30% recycled materials by 2030
SK Hynix Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip producer, announced on Tuesday that it has established a medium- to long-term plan to utilize ...
Feb 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy to invest in Li-metal battery developer Sion Power
Global lithium-ion battery major LG Energy Solution Ltd. will invest in Sion Power Corp., a US startup holding core patents in lithium-metal battery...
Jan 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Hyundai-invested SES to provide Li-Metal battery B samples, eyes UAM
SES AI Corp., a high-performance battery maker backed by several global automakers such as GM and Hyundai Motor Co., has moved one step closer to co...
Dec 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Korea Zinc to up sales to $19 billion by 2033 with green energy
Korea Zinc Inc., South Korea’s and the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter, will accelerate its drive to foster its new growth engines...
Dec 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy, KAIST develop Li-Metal battery tech for improved EV range
South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) have developed a lithium-metal batt...
Dec 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
HD Hyundai President Chung to deliver keynote at CES 2024
South Korea's No. 1 shipbuilding group’s heir apparent Chung Ki-sun will deliver a keynote speech at the world’s biggest consumer techno...
Oct 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Young Poong, AJ Networks to form battery recycling chain in Europe
South Korea’s non-ferrous metal company Young Poong Co. has teamed up with AJ Networks to establish a secondary batteries resource circulation...
Sep 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung releases Frame Disney 100th anniversary edition
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will unveil the lifestyle TV "The Frame Disney 100th Anniversary Edition." This edition, comme...
Aug 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea is far more reliant on China for rare earth metal than Japan: report
South Korea is far more dependent than Japan on neodymium permanent magnets from China at 88%, while the rate for Japan, a land devoid of rare earth...
Aug 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy, Huayou Cobalt set up battery recycling JV in China
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s No. 2 battery maker, and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co., the global refined cobalt leader, have launched a ce...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai showcases its future green vessel tech in Vietnam
South Korea's HD Hyundai Co. on Thursday said its CEO Chung Ki-sun visited the affiliate Hyundai Vietnam Shipbuilding in the central Vietnamese prov...
Jun 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Group, SKC to jointly develop lithium metal cathode material
South Korea’s POSCO Group and SKC will jointly develop a dream lithium metal cathode material for commercialization by 2026 under a strategy t...
May 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy Solution secures lithium concentrate in N.America
South Korea's battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced on Friday that it has signed a lithium concentrate supply contract with Australian c...
May 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
CJ Olive Young targets Japanese sun care products market
Round A'round, South Korea's top beauty chain CJ Olive Young's own cosmetic brand, announced on Thursday that its popular sun care item "Greentea Ci...
May 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Samsung, LG show Korean War hero tribute videos on Times Square
A tribute video to honor Korean and U.S. veterans of the Korean War started screening on billboards in New York’s Times Square on Thursday. Th...
Apr 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO conducts pilot release of rare metal ferrochrome
South Korea's steelmaker POSCO and the government-run Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corp. (KOMIR) on Friday announced the first pi...
Apr 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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